He has set up the Premji Foundation to fund projects in 18, 000 schools across India, which aim to encourage students to develop computer skills.
Then, once more, she turned back to people she knew and asked for more money, this time to start a Sharing Foundation scholarship fund for an orphan girl to attend college.
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Anti-retrovirals are supplied to poor children jointly with the Children's Investment Fund Foundation of Chris Hohn, a hedge-fund boss.
Unlike a family foundation, the fund pays no excise tax and does not have to distribute 5% of its assets annually.
Real Virtuality has been made possible through a 2007 Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund award, with additional support provided by Barco and Flanders House.
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During the month of November, the Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star hotel kicks off the holiday season by contributing to Hearts of Montage, its own foundation that helps fund several local charities.
This is why we hope that organizations like UNITAID, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Clinton Foundation will help fund her work and similar projects in the coming years.
He claims he sells lesser pieces to help fund the foundation and future exhibits.
It appears that First Round Capital, Mayfield Fund and Foundation Capital are willing to invest money to determine if that target can be captured.
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The Crawford Taylor Foundation, a family fund, supports animal welfare, community development, the environment and services for women and youths, mainly focusing on organizations in the St.
In fact, Mr. Gorbachev's speaking engagement is part of a campaign to fund his Foundation's three-part "Global Security Project" launched last month at a symposium in Moscow.
Bill Clinton's complex web of business dealings (he has raised large sums of money from foreign companies and governments, both as a speaker and in order to fund his foundation) is also a potential complication.
But that gift went toward a pledge he made in 1997 to establish the United Nations Foundation and the Better World Fund, both targeted at strengthening the UN.
Star NFL quarterback Peyton Manning has started the Chattanooga Heroes Fund at the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga.
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Top performers, all at 100%, include Brother's Brother Foundation, Children's Hunger Fund and Gifts in Kind International.
Its core funders are the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Marisla Foundation and the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment.
Brownfield's goal is to find a philanthropic foundation run by Iraqi expats to fund and eventually take over the online marketing of the art.
It is funded by the Big Lottery Fund, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Scottish Government, which recently announced it was to continue funding the service for a further three years.
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Following a sell-out run as a play, a feature film based on the book has been released (April 2015), funded by The Heritage Lottery Fund, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and the World Heritage Site.
The University of Glasgow has received funding from Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland and Big Lottery Fund to carry out the independent inquiry which aims to benefit the lives of people who misuse drugs.
There will probably be a law against such shenanigans as putting money in a donor-advised fund to take advantage of more liberal deductions than are allowed for private foundations and then having the fund feed your private foundation.
At the top of fundraising efficiency are nine charities rated at 100%: America's Second Harvest, Brother's Brother Foundation, Children's Hunger Fund, Christian Aid Ministries, Direct Relief International, Public Broadcasting Service, RBCMinistries, Surgical Eye Expeditions International and Tides Foundation.
Health-insurance premiums in the Bay State have risen significantly faster than the national average, according to the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit health foundation.
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It can help lay a strong foundation for the launch of a new fund or set the right course for investing an immature fund.
The foundation is primarily a donor-advised fund that allows individual contributors to create mini charitable foundations under its umbrella and collects fees for its services.
The money left over after the surgery will be donated to the Jim Collins Foundation, an organization that helps "fund gender-confirming surgeries for transgender people, " the group said.
How well Butrint survives tourist pressure will depend on collaboration between Richard Hodges, the foundation's scientific director and principal fund-raiser, and Auron Tare, head of the newly created national park.
Mr Gates was in China to talk to its government about a project of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation that would try to identify and fund research that could alleviate poverty.
Mr. Lynch embraced transcendental meditation around the time he made the 1977 curiosity "Eraserhead, " and since 2005 has headed the David Lynch Foundation, a charity he created to fund the teaching of T.
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